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SF law forces disclosure of phone radiation levels

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San Francisco appears poised to become the first city in the U.S. to require a cell phone makers to publicly display how much radiation their products emit.

On Tuesday, the city’s board of supervisors voted 10-1 in favor of a new law that requires handset makers to post in stores their products’ specific absorption rate (SAR), which is a measure of the amount of radio waves absorbed by the user’s body.

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